My worry is that the next one we see won’t operate within the confines of a political campaign. This uptick in insults directed at minorities blamed on Trump, may be the tinder for setting off this next insurgency. Social media amplifies every incident, spreading the anger it evokes like contagion across the country. Just watch. This suggests that the next open source protest we are likely to see will form to force Donald Trump from the Presidency before the next election — a Tahrir square moment in cities all across the US. A massive and diverse open source protest that has one simple goal: the immediate removal of Donald Trump from office. Unfortunately, an open source insurgency that forces a sitting President from office without the benefit of an election could result in the same outcome as Egypt (or worse Syria).

the democrats should ask themselves why they’ve been losing elections & political battles for the last 30 years. even after all these years, they seem surprised that the other side is playing dirty, but they keep bringing sticks and stones to a gun battle. keep up the ineffective techniques and you’ll keep losing.

Remember, no one cares about policy, and politics isn’t about policy.

The bigger question is what he should actually do as First Gentleman. He would be “in charge of revitalizing the economy, because, you know, he knows how to do it.” He has “got to come out of retirement” and take on job creation. That struck many people as an awfully broad mandate. Luckily, she seems to have dropped that idea—or, at least, we haven’t heard it lately. It might have been a spur-of-the-moment bid for the hearts and minds of working-class voters in coal country who remember her husband fondly.

The final ignominy for a Republican Party brought low by Trump is that its own digital efforts may undermine its future. The data operation in which Priebus and the RNC invested so heavily has fed into Project Alamo, helping Parscale build Trump’s base. “They brought to the table this movement and people who were willing to donate and activate, and we brought to the table a 4-year investment and said we can process that for you. That willingness to embrace what the RNC built allowed them to harness that movement.” If the election results cause the party to fracture, Trump will be better positioned than the RNC to reach this mass of voters because he’ll own the list himself—and Priebus, after all he’s endured, will become just the latest to invest with Trump and wind up poorer for the experience.

OBAMA: We know the guys who are funding them, and if you talk to Larry Page or others, their general attitude, understandably, is, “The last thing we want is a bunch of bureaucrats slowing us down as we chase the unicorn out there.”

Part of the problem that we’ve seen is that our general commitment as a society to basic research has diminished. Our confidence in collective action has been chipped away, partly because of ideology and rhetoric.

The analogy that we still use when it comes to a great technology achievement, even 50 years later, is a moonshot. And somebody reminded me that the space program was 0.5% of GDP. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but in today’s $ that would be $80B that we would be spending annually … on AI. Right now we’re spending probably less than $1B. That undoubtedly will accelerate, but part of what we’re gonna have to understand is that if we want the values of a diverse community represented in these breakthrough technologies, then government funding has to be a part of it. And if government is not part of financing it, then all these issues that Joi has raised about the values embedded in these technologies end up being potentially lost or at least not properly debated.